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This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings. By…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

Deep Attractor Network (DANet) is the state-of-the-art technique in speech separation field, which uses Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM), but the complexity of the DANet model is very high. In this paper, a simplified and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Rawad Melhem , Assef Jafar , Riad Hamadeh

In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised approach for Speech Segmentation, which builds on previously researched approaches, e.g., Speaker Diarization, while being applicable to an inclusive set of acoustic-semantic distinctions, paving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Avishai Elmakies , Omri Abend , Yossi Adi

Generative adversarial network (GAN) models can synthesize highquality audio signals while ensuring fast sample generation. However, they are difficult to train and are prone to several issues including mode collapse and divergence. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Teysir Baoueb , Haocheng Liu , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Gael Richard

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

We propose a modified teacher-student training for the extraction of frame-wise speaker embeddings that allows for an effective diarization of meeting scenarios containing partially overlapping speech. To this end, a geodesic distance loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Variational autoencoder (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) have found widespread applications in clustering and have achieved significant success. However, the potential of these approaches may be limited due to VAE's mediocre…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jie Yan , Jing Liu , Zhong-yuan Zhang

For text-independent short-utterance speaker recognition (SUSR), the performance often degrades dramatically. This paper presents a combination approach to the SUSR tasks with two phonetic-aware systems: one is the DNN-based i-vector system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng , Panshi Jin

For online speaker diarization, samples arrive incrementally, and the overall distribution of the samples is invisible. Moreover, in most existing clustering-based methods, the training objective of the embedding extractor is not designed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yifan Chen , Yifan Guo , Qingxuan Li , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Text-independent speaker recognition using short utterances is a highly challenging task due to the large variation and content mismatch between short utterances. I-vector based systems have become the standard in speaker verification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-18 Jinxi Guo , Ning Xu , Kailun Qian , Yang Shi , Kaiyuan Xu , Yingnian Wu , Abeer Alwan

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in end-to-end speaker diarization and recognition. However, their speaker discriminability remains limited due to the scarcity of large-scale conversational data…

Speaker diarization systems are challenged by a trade-off between the temporal resolution and the fidelity of the speaker representation. By obtaining a superior temporal resolution with an enhanced accuracy, a multi-scale approach is a way…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Tae Jin Park , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Unsupervised clustering on speakers is becoming increasingly important for its potential uses in semi-supervised learning. In reality, we are often presented with enormous amounts of unlabeled data from multi-party meetings and discussions.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Fuchuan Tong , Siqi Zheng , Min Zhang , Yafeng Chen , Hongbin Suo , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

The diffusion model is capable of generating high-quality data through a probabilistic approach. However, it suffers from the drawback of slow generation speed due to the requirement of a large number of time steps. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Myeongjin Ko , Yong-Hoon Choi

End-to-end neural diarization (EEND) models offer significant improvements over traditional embedding-based Speaker Diarization (SD) approaches but falls short on generalizing to long-form audio with large number of speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Xiang Li , Vivek Govindan , Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan

End-to-end speaker diarization for an unknown number of speakers is addressed in this paper. Recently proposed end-to-end speaker diarization outperformed conventional clustering-based speaker diarization, but it has one drawback: it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu

The objective of this work is effective speaker diarisation using multi-scale speaker embeddings. Typically, there is a trade-off between the ability to recognise short speaker segments and the discriminative power of the embedding,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Youngki Kwon , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

We performed an experimental review of current diarization systems for the conversational telephone speech (CTS) domain. In detail, we considered a total of eight different algorithms belonging to clustering-based, end-to-end neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Luca Serafini , Samuele Cornell , Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

Speaker diarization is usually referred to as the task that determines ``who spoke when'' in a recording. Until a few years ago, all competitive approaches were modular. Systems based on this framework reached state-of-the-art performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Federico Landini